Here is our raining New Year Eve trip. It has rained nearly 2 weeks. It means that all our Christmas-New Year holidays were under rain. Ok, it did not rain 24 hours per day, but it was heavy cloud all the time and the 3 min ~ 1 hour long rain could come down in any minute. We did not want to get wet, carry umbrella all the time, or hike on muddy mountain trail, so we stayed home or went shopping during this holiday.
We couldn't take it any more and decided to go out yesterday. We have thought about northern NSW or southern QLD. After checking weather.com, we decided to go to Great Sandy National Park, QLD because the weather forecast predicted ~5 mm per day on Dec. 31, 2009 and Jan. 1, 2010 for Gympie but >10 mm on Dec. 31 around that national park in northern NSW.
這裡已經連續下雨下了快兩個禮拜 (ps. 滿天烏雲,隨時都可能下那種三分鐘到一個鐘頭的雨),非常煩人,除了家裡的地毯踩起來好像可以擠出水以外,我們整個聖誕節新年假期都是以一付困在這裡的情況呈現,其實主要是因為我們不想淋濕,也不太想走到哪裡都要拿著雨傘,更不想在泥濘的山路上走,結果就是天天待在家裡或是跑去逛不同的超市或是百貨公司。
昨天是新年前夕,雖然還是滿天烏雲,但是我們終於忍不住了,決定跑去 Great Sandy National Park 去看夕陽 日出 海邊五彩的沙子 以及餵海豚,這是一個位在 Queensland's Sunshine coast (昆士蘭的陽光海岸) 北端的國家公園,有漂亮的沙子以及可以開四輪傳動車子的大片沙灘,算是這裡的度假勝地,對我們而言,主要是要去健行的。從我們家開去那裡大概要開3個小時,出發前我們還查了氣象,氣象預測說會下大約 5 mm 的雨,嗯,屬於可以忍受的量,但是當我們快要開到時,就開始下雨,然後那個雨就忽大忽小,有時是綿綿細雨,有時不下雨,有時又下起大雨,根本就是 5 mm 的不知道多少倍的雨量。
考慮了老半天,還跑去位在附近 Tin Can Bay 那個海灣小城看煙火 (ps. 因為一直在下雨,本來還以為不會放了,後來在放煙火前將近一小時就停雨了,其實應該說是半小時,因為本來說是9點要放煙火,但是拖到9點半才放,而雨是8點半停的),因為這個一小時的無雨,害我們很掙扎,想了老半天,看著滿天的雲,最後還是決定回家,結果一路上又是和雨相伴而回,真是令人無語啊,害我們都在那裡懷疑我們的頭上是不是黏著一塊會下雨的雲。
回到 Brisbane 時已經是 12 點多了,雖然錯過了這裡的新年煙火,我們還是開到 mountain Coot-tha 上去看夜景,開到山頂時大概是12 點半,看到一大堆車子開下山,眺望整個 Brisbane city 的夜景很漂亮,可以想像在這裡看煙火應該是很享受的。
Friday, January 1, 2010
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